In April 2016 Charlotte Delaney, playwright and daughter of Shelagh Delaney retraced an epic rail journey across America that her mother had first made in 1972. 

She was accompanied by Selina Todd, historian and author of The People: the rise and fall of the working class, who is now writing the authorised biography of Shelagh Delaney. The journey helped shape Charlotte’s latest play, Sweet Responsibility, which is having its first reading in the UK on Thursday 3 November 6pm at the Working Class Movement Library. 

Charlotte and Selina discuss the life of one of Salford’s most famous daughters – and listen to members of MaD Theatre Company read Sweet Responsibility, Charlotte’s play about friendship and activism, as the ugly underbelly of a rural idyll puts a treasured friendship to the test.
As Charlotte explains: ‘I wanted to write the humour, horror, courage and love that lives in all of us and when we’re not vigilant can sometimes spill over’. Selina Todd adds: ‘Charlotte Delaney’s drama is the latest addition to Salford’s proud tradition of radical drama and women pioneers – not least Shelagh Delaney and more recently Maxine Peake’.

Free tickets for the event are available via Eventbrite here. 

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